Spelling Words 19

a word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words

a word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that is attached to a base, stem, or root. Something that is attached, joined, or added. (verb) to secure to another, attach, to place at the end.

the invention of new words; an invented word or phrase; the process of making coins

used in or suitable to spoken language or to writing that imitates speech; conversational. Informal in style or expression.

the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but humorously wrong in the context.

the formation or use of a word that imitates or resembles what it stands for.

a word, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward

a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; blend.

a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.

an accidental but humorous distortion of words in a phrase formed by interchanging the initial sounds